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• Hummingbird predators series#

We found a significant season-long reduction of 27% in average fruit infestation in 2017, a year with high populations of SWD. In 16 out of 18 weeks in 20, the number of SWD found in fruit were reduced in the half of the field with 62 feeders/hectare (25/A), compared to the half without feeders. Over four years (2015-2018), 81% of 266 hourly observations of hummingbird behavior found the birds were occupying the raspberry planting when utilizing the feeders, supporting opportunities for predation on SWD flies. Baited traps were used to assess fly populations and salt flotation was used to assess fruit infestation. In New York State, we investigated the use of feeders to attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds into raspberry fields to encourage predation of spotted-wing Drosophila (SWD) with the goal of reducing fly populations and fruit infestation. Hummingbirds require arthropods in their diet and may consume 2000 small insects, including Drosophilids, per day when fledging young. Here is a summary of our work on hummingbirds, which I will present on Maat 11:30 to 12:30. My seminar will be presented via zoom, so you can join and watch from the comfort of your home office or wherever you are using this zoom link:Ĭ/j/97142846187?pwd=c0hNbldOR3ZXbFF0eVgzc2YybUMzUT09

Hummingbird predators series#

To learn more about the NYS IPM Seminar series and upcoming talks, visit /resources/nysipm-seminars/.

This seminar will be part of the NYS IPM Program's Seminar Series. now i have to go home today and take down the branch (as its dead now), and remove the nest… im crushed.On Thursday, March 10, 2022, from 11:30 to 12:30, I will present our work on using hummingbird feeders to attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds into raspberry plantings as an aid in managing SWD. it was nature, while it was in the tree that i strapped it to, but i feel it was my fault, i should of put it somewhere else. im jsut so sad that they chopped that branch down. I was going to take the feeder down to not intice it to go up the tree, but i didnt think of it until i was at work. omg, why didnt i put it somewhere elese? what else could i have done? i think a squirrel crawled up and got it, as there was one that would do that to get to my bird feeder. Mama was sitting across the sidewalk just looking. I came home from work, and the nest was torn apart, and baby gone.

In the morning the baby was still there, i was SO happy!! means mama found it, and was feeding it. i went back to my apartment, and mama was flying all around, then right in front of me she flew to the ground, and showed me her baby! i went to the dumpter, took out the branch w/ the nest, i tied it around the tree, and i scooped it up baby and put it back in the nest, i put more branches around it, with a hole for mama to get in, and i checked on it ALL night. my landlord wanted to trim my tree, i said, please wait at least 2 weeks (as baby was ready to fledge in a week), the next day i came home from work, and they had chopped that branch down, i found it in the dumpster, nest still attached, baby gone, but the non flurishing one was still in there, so i burried it. I had a hummingbird nest, there were 2 babies, one stopped flurishing at age 4days, the other kept growing, and mama kept feeding.